Halo Mmo

343 Industries is hiring, and it is looking for someone who can help it build “large scale distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, serviceability, maintainability, and stability.”

Speaking to Shacknews, Ensemble tech boss Dave Pottinger has outlined the background for the firm’s canned MMO, and revealed that the game was green-lit and had staffed up to 40 employees before is was axed in an exec changeover. From the interview: What were the circumstances behind the Halo MMO? Pottinger: Ensemble has been wanting […]

Speaking to GI at TGS, Bungie PR boss Brian Jarrard has claimed that Bungie only had a vague idea anyone was working on a Halo MMO, and that creating one would be “pretty challenging” thanks to the necessary creation of “a whole new layer of fiction” in the Halo universe. “They are like our lunchtime […]

We’ve just been dropped a link to this Flickr set, which appears to be a ton of concept imagery to something called Titan, apparently an “Ensemble Games prototype; 2005-2007.” Yep, this would appear to be the canned Ensemble Halo MMO Gama broke earlier. Fill your boots.

Update: A ton of concept images from the game have been posted on Flickr by “goneisgone”. See them here. Gama’s reporting that Ensemble’s cancelled game was a Halo MMO. From the piece: Following the recent announcement that Microsoft-owned Age Of Empires creator Ensemble Studios would close after the completion of Halo Wars, Gamasutra has discovered […]